22 May ONRA:May22nd.08
Hafa Adai, Thanks for dropping by.
In celebration of amateur combatives—
Saipan’s 2nd Submission grappling tournament was an excellent groundbreaking event for the CNMI and their newest combat sports venue, TrenchTech /PurebredSaipan. Members from Purebred/LloydIrvin Jiujitsu, ThePound, The Carlson Gracie Academy, and the Guahan Warriors came to support CNMISubmission Grappling at the new 15000 square foot facility. On May 10th, about 300 fans gathered to watch 46 competitors from Guam, Saipan, Rota, and Tinian including some of Saipans top MMA fighters in TheArtofWar2 a. The sportsmanship and skill level of athletes from the CNMI showcased a good supply of talent and potential to warm up the venue for “TrenchWarz8:Kontra” on June21st. An impressive growing interest for structure and longevity Saipan’s MMA industry placing Saipan and Guam at pace with increasing concerns and appreciation for The Mariana Islands advantages and potentials in the Asian region’s growing and fast evolving combat sports environment.
May 17th, Spike22 and Ground Fu are celebrating an impressive eight victories and zero losses with remarkable improvements of all our amateur MMA fighters as entry level Preba Hao fighters of today, only a few years later, already perform on par with our island’s frmer top fighter athletes.
May18th:, Kontenda’s pulled through with the Kontenda’s Classic to give us a new an opportunity to see amateur combat sports (TaeKwon Do, Kickboxing, Submission Grappling and Jiujitsu) under one roof on the same day at the fitness expo at the Westin Resort.
June 5th-8th, The Brazilian Jiujitsu World Championships is less than 2weeks away and we have over 20 representatives fromGuam joining some of the best jiujitsu athletes from all over the world to test their hard training in front of a BJJ World Audience. Will we produce another BJJ world champion?
The Marianas Open BJJ and SubmissionGrappling tournament has set its date for July 12th at the
Phoenix center. More info will follow.
THE NEXT GENERATION
Performances in recent grappling events in the Philippines, Saipan, and Guam the last three weeks have revealed some of our islands top grapplers in under 18year old competitors. A frequency of amateur and professional events is breeding notable major and consistent performance developments in our youth competitors. If we can at least continue at this pace, we can have confidence that our milestone performances today will continue (if not likely be surpassed) in the following generations of some of our current adolescent Brazilian Jiujitsu stand out names like Danielle Cabbacang, Eric Alcantra, Kyle Reyes, and Miguel Ayuyu.
Increased attention to amateur combat sports will not only provide us with an extra and necessary window for observation. It will it offers frequent opportunities for collaboration to collectively improve and refragment separate developments and align them properly for a larger and more instrumental impact better delivered by unified forces.
In light of all the amateur and professional progress we are making in sport locally and with all the higher ambitions for athletes in ventures internationally; with positive purpose in imminent focus, and with dedicated efforts towards structure and organization; we can share the confidence that our combatives is likely to yield for our athletes and our island–by products of multi-level opportunities in ventures on and off the mat, and inside and outside of the cage and ring.